Water collection (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Water collection

Caption

Research by STRI postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria shows that bacterial communities in streams adjacent to young secondary forests resemble those of mature forest streams in as little as a decade after cattle has been removed from the land.

Credit

Kristin Saltonstall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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